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With Firefox 3, you can easily select multiple and non-consecutive pieces of text from a web page as shown in this GIF screencast.

The secret is the Ctrl key. Select a line in Firefox with your mouse and then press the Ctrl key before selecting the second line.

Unlike other browsers like IE or Opera, Firefox will not clear your previous text selections if the Control key remains pressed at the time of selection. This feature will definitely come handy while clipping web pages. Thanks Keith.

For some reason, the trick did not work for me on Google Search pages and Google News but I guess the culprit is Firebug.

Screencast: How to Select Multiple Lines of Text in Firefox 3 - Digital Inspiration | FAQ | RSS

Firefox 3 will be up for grabs here at 10 AM Los Angeles time.

If you are in a different part of the world, refer to this world time map and know the exact time when Firefox 3 will become available in your region. Happy Firefox 3 Download Day.

Related: Opera Review, World Time Clocks

Firefox 3 Download Schedule on a World Time Map - Digital Inspiration | FAQ | RSS

Blogging can get you noticed and may even help you land a job in your dream company.

Mike Pegg from Canada has been diligently writing the Google Maps Mania blog for the past three years on all things related to Google Maps. His blogspot blog features an excellent collection of mashups and tools ever created using the Google Maps API.

And now this

If you’re like me, you treat your flash drives like they don’t break or contain circuitry that could get damaged. My flash drives are all attached to my keychain and since two of them have covers that could not be attached to the drives when it’s in use, I have decided to just keep the caps off permanently.

Twitter can be held responsible for changing the habits of many bloggers worldwide.

Fred Wilson shared that he is posting content more frequently on Twitter than on his regular blog. Steve Rubel also agreed saying

Tag Clouds help you quickly visualize the content of a website. The font size of a word or phrase in a tag cloud is almost always proportional to the frequency at which that particular topic is covered on the website.

Web 2.0 sites like del.icio.us and Flickr introduced us to the concept of

A scanner and an OCR software are the key components of a

Technabob posted something relevant

Google has updated their Firefox toolbar to make it compatible with Firefox 3 - the browser that is due tomorrow.

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For those of you who haven

You get an email invite from a friend about a community event that happens next week but his phone number is missing. How can you attach a phone number to the message ?

Most of the times people either print out the email and add hand written notes or forward the email to themselves with some notes. Well there is a more efficient way to do it through Xnote.

XNote is a Thunderbird extension that lets you associate sticky notes to emails. You can put anything text inside the note and it stays with your message forever.

The notes attached with messages are stored locally and therefore won

Congregational Security Inc. provides protection and security to celebrities associated with the entertainment industry in India particularly film and TV.

Interestingly, the company heavily relies on Google tools like Google Earth, Google Docs, etc for protecting VIPs and also for collaborating with their agents / bodyguards / investigators across the world.

YouTube Video from Google Enterprise blog. Thanks Pratham.

Using Google Tools to Protect Bollywood Celebrities in India - Digital Inspiration | FAQ | RSS

Forget iPhone for the timebeing, yeah it’s cool and all… but let’s turn the Apple dial away to look at this new phone gadget from the Japanese.

Well, it’s official. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of The Patriots is a kick-ass game. Some people have even said that it is the best game ever made. I really don’t know about THAT since I still haven’t played the game but from what I’ve seen and read, MGS4 has indeed raised the bar for what the perfect game should be.

Hideo Kojima has made the game that he can really proudly call his masterpiece. The visuals are just stunning and all of the technical elements of the game are just spot on. A lot of critics are also talking about how seamlessly the gameplay and the narrative are intertwined — that, my friends, is one of the holy grails of game development and Kojima has achieved it.

I am actually rushing this post because I need to go to my favorite game store, beat off all of the drooling fanboys with no reservations with a stick, and get my copy of the game. Bye!

The Wayback Machine on the Internet Archive preserves snapshots of web pages as they change over time. So if you want to see the CNN homepage of 9/11, go to archive.org, type cnn.com and click the corresponding date. It

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